Indian Interiors, next in the series by Angelika Taschen (her Moroccon Interiors was a raging success), dwells only on historic and traditional habitats. With text in English, German and French, and photographs by German photographer Deidi von Schaewen, the book is available at all leading book stores for Rs 2,500.

And to make sure that the news doesn't get stale, the author-editor-photographer team is holding an exhibition of the photographs printed in the book at the National Gallery of Modern Art. While you can see and smell Rajasthan, Gujarat, Orissa and Kerala in plenty, one unmistak-ably missesMadhya Pradesh, the Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and the north-eastern states. Sethi's rejoinder to the oldest question? "We don't want to give away the secret. For, the moment you do that, you become boring."

The colourful gallery walls will be a window to archetypal interiors of famous Indian houses till the end of this month. On view is the flying roof of Delhi's Poddar House; conservationist and philanthropist O P Jain's Anandgram; Dimple Kapadia's house designed by fashion designers Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla; the house Le Cobusier built for Manorma Sarabhai and her two sons in Ahmedabad. Also included are Asha Parekh's Juhu bungalow by Nari Gandhi, from where a thief couldn't find his way out.